tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081549371856807746.post-91135706735141044352018-03-10T10:24:00.000+01:002018-03-10T10:31:55.474+01:00BOMBSHELL: There won't be Boko Haram if the level of education in the North matched South-West, says Obasanjo <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p50_2krixjI/WqOilcakFCI/AAAAAAAAe9A/85-h1514sRA_9nPHg5DGb5GTRuDOq3NhQCLcBGAs/s1600/tmp-cam--1510372325.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p50_2krixjI/WqOilcakFCI/AAAAAAAAe9A/85-h1514sRA_9nPHg5DGb5GTRuDOq3NhQCLcBGAs/s320/tmp-cam--1510372325.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Olusegun Obasanjo, former President, says there will be no Boko Haram if the level of education in the north-east matched what is obtainable in the south-west.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Obasanjo said it took quite some time for Boko Haram to incubate and evolve into a full-fledged terrorist group.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said history may repeat itself if the women, children and youth of the north-east region are not provided with ample education.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The former president made the comments on Friday in Maiduguri, Borno state, while delivering his closing remarks at the end of a two-day peer review meeting of the Nigeria Zero Hunger Strategic Forum.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Boko Haram did not start overnight. It had an incubating period, but I do not know how long,” Obasanjo said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And although I do not know how long it took to incubate, I am sure if the level of education in the North-East matched the level of education in the South-West, there wouldn’t have been Boko Haram.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">“If we do not cater for and educate women, children and youth, they will become the Boko Haram of 15 years to come.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Education is the panacea, education is the key, it inculcates the values that guard against the emergence of Boko Haram.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">An August 2017 report by the United Nations put the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states at 1.7 million.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most of them were displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Yusufu Daudahttps://plus.google.com/102462340257859790235noreply@blogger.com